The Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics is an umbrella graduate training program that spans several basic science and clinical departments and bridges the medical center and the college of arts and sciences. There are currently 102 faculty with 3 adjunct faculty and 73 students in the program, which was founded in 1967 and has been continuously supported by a training grant from the NIH for the past 25 years. Over the past several decades, the program has served as an important forum for training and education in genetics, including model systems (bacteria, yeast, fungi, drosophila, zebrafish, mouse), population genetics, and human genetics. We have forged a close link between the program and the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) at Duke, which is directed by Hunt Willard, and provides for robust, broad and flexible training environment that spans both genetics and genome sciences. Read more